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#! /bin/sh

# html2txt.sh - A program to convert fetchmail's HTML documentation to text
# Copyright (C) 2004  Matthias Andree

# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.

# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.

# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Usage: html2txt.sh INPUT.html

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Abort on error
set -e

# Parse arguments
if [ $# -ne 1 ] ; then
    echo >&2 "Usage: `basename $0 || echo $0` input.html"
    exit 1
fi

# Pull in variables
inp="$1"
tmp="html2txt.$$.html"

# now preprocess
trap "rm -f \"$tmp\"" 0 1 2 3 15
${AWK:=awk} '/<table .*summary="Canned/ { i=1; }
     /<\/table>/ { i=0; }
     { if (i == 0) print $0; }' "$inp" >"$tmp" <&-

# and go!
echo "  (This file was generated from $inp)"
lynx -dump -nolist "$tmp"
rm -f "$tmp"
trap "" 0 1 2 3 15